This amazing journey have to stop when we reached Queenstown. Kota indah dengan Danau Wakatipu menyambut saat kami perlahan
mendekati area landasan. That was a 60
minutes of non-stop eyegasm, one of the best experiences in my life.

@marischkaprue - her journey is full of eyegasm

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InMaratua, alsoinDerawanIslands, EastKalimantan,there is also a stingless jellyfishlake. My friend who visited Togean also said that Togean has the similar lake, and turns out Misool, Raja Ampat have a lot of stingless jellyfish lake. Local residents said that there are five stingless jellyfish lake in Misool, but only two are accessible.

Different with Kakaban Lake which already have decent track and wooden stairs, to get to Lenmakana Lake you literally have to crawl and climb the rocky hills, and before the entry you need a help from local guide because the access is quite a challenge.

Nobody have to told us to get in, we got our self dipping into the lake, no time are wasted. Here we can see the jellyfish, so visible and in large numbers. This quite different with Kakaban Lake where the entry are a bit muddy especially when there are a lot of people swimming at the same time. Lenmakana Lake is deeper at the entry so it will stay clear even though a group coming in together at the same time.

I don't have to explain why this jellyfish don't have sting, the process is the same as Kakaban Lake. One thing for sure, swimming while seeing these jellyfish totally makes me ahappy. Misool have plenty of fun!

@marischkaprue - she doesn't sting like jellyfish, also ain't soft like jellies

To
reach Misool, take a flight to Sorong (Flight from Jakarta to Sorong
usually via Makassar. The usual ticket price for return ticket Jakarta -
Sorong - Jakarta is around 350 USD). From Sorong you can continue with
speed boat, around 4 to 5 hours boat trip.

Renting
a speedboat to Misool is highly expensive, to get a 509 USD budget for 5
days exploring Misool, you will need to share speedboat cost with
around 20 person on one trip. I suggest you to join open trip such as Wisata Raja Ampat who provide Misool Trip with budget under 509 USD (exclude plane ticket). You can contact Wisata Raja Ampat through +62852 960 43961 or Blackberry PIN 2A495979. The trip usually takes time in May, October and December.

SeeingthatparachuteI imaginejumpingoff from the edge ofthe hill, fear andcuriosity came up. Since I'm not the first one doing it, I can see the process before I finally did it. Well, we're not athlete and none of us had any paragliding course before so we it's a tandem system. Basically you just need to wear a harness, tied to a parachute, run and let the wind takes you up flying. Sounds simple right? It's true if you're just a passenger.

Then all the equipments are ready. Harness check, helmet check, all check and now is the time. Eri, our pilot gave me a short brief before we start. "Run to the edge of the hill, if we have to stop I'll say 'cut' or 'stop' okay?" he said when we prepare all equipments.

And less than a minute later I was running. The 'runway' isn't long actually, my concern is if we already run to the edge and the parachute didn't work out perfectly. But in fact I just have to run only few steps then I'm already lifted by the parachute, through the edge and going up smoothly.

Paraglidingfullyutilizethe windtofly. The windthatmakes us flying abovecomes fromthewindpassing the sloperesulting inpower to lift the parachute. The thermal or hot temperatures also support the parachute to fly high. The pilot really knows how to take advantage of the wind to control the motions, altitude and directions of the parachute. You just have to sit and enjoy the scenery, at least that's what I did.

The sensation is awesome. For about 6 minutes I was at the height before finally going down slowly and perfectly landed on Air Manis Beach brown sands. Run,
fly and enjoy. Sometimes we don't need any wings to fly, life is too short to
spend on the ground. Go deep or fly high!

@marischkaprue - maybe she was a fish in her previous life, a flying fish.

Don't panic and suddenly stop during take off. Follow the instruction and enjoy the flying sensation. You can bring camera (pocket, mirrorless, DSLR, Go Pro) as long as you have the strap to prevent you accidentally dropped it.

Paragliding in Air Manis Beach is one of the activity at #MinangkaBike a program from the Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economics to promote West Sumatera as a tourist destination. See more about destinations in Indonesia in Indonesia.travel

Again, thanks to Mad Alkatiri the initiator, let's do more projects in the future!